Quotes by Sean Connery

About Sean Connery:

Sir Thomas Sean Connery is a retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award). He was knighted by Elizabeth II in July 2000, and received the Kennedy Center Honors in the US.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film.

Sean Connery

There's always a new challenge to keep you motivated.

Sean Connery

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

Sean Connery

Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

Sean Connery

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

Sean Connery

Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise.

Sean Connery

I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.

Sean Connery

Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.

Sean Connery

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

Sean Connery

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.

Sean Connery

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

Sean Connery

I've never kept a record of anything.

Sean Connery

I'm an easy target because of my political opinions.

Sean Connery

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

Sean Connery

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

Sean Connery

I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

Sean Connery

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

Sean Connery

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

Sean Connery

I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.

Sean Connery

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Sean Connery

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

Sean Connery

Author Bio

  • NameSean Connery
  • DescriptionScottish actor and producer
  • AliasesThomas Sean Connery
  • BornAugust 25, 1930
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Film Producer; Film Actor
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Supporting Actor; Knight Of The Legion Of Honour; Commandeur Des Arts Et Des Lettres?; Golden Globe Award For Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture